Christine Todd
Christine Todd grew up in County Durham, but spent most of her life in the American Midwest. She graduated from Concordia University–Wisconsin, and worked in radio advertising, most recently for ABC/Disney in Chicago. Her fiction has appeared in Leaf Books micro-fiction anthologies and The Yellow Room magazine. She and her husband now live in London. She writes a column for Screentrade magazine, and is completing her first novel and a collection of short stories.
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Discovering a Comet
and
More Micro-Fiction
ISBN 1-905599-46-3
£7.99 (plus £1 p&p)
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Imagine this: coming downstairs on a winter's morning to find that someone has shoved a tiny comet through your letterbox. Unwanted celestial light has faded the dado rail and a montage of family photographs is all askew from the eccentric orbit that it's assumed, on an axis from the umbrella stand to the cloakroom door.
Extract from runner-up ‘Discovering a Comet’ by Pauline Masurel.
Discovering a Comet and More Micro-Fiction contains the winning entries from Leaf Books’ 2008 micro-fiction competition. From tiny comets invading your airing cupboard to still life paintings that refuse to come alive to, in Freda Love Smith’s winning story ‘Jesse and Jesus’, questions that refuse to be answered but ask you to love them all the same, it’s essentially just a bumper assorted collection of total brilliance.
Imagine Coal
and
More Micro-Fiction
Short Story Anthology
Price £9.99 + £1 p&p
Format: Demi 82 Pages
ISBN: 978-1-905599-42-4
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The Woman with a Coffee Pot opposite me is so ugly with her work-a-day blue dress. Without rest I have to stare into her large, thick, round face, so like my own mother: the stern gaze, the bulbous nose. She is admired. Cezanne kept her. I am a working girl fresh from the fields, so blotted out.
‘You are the invisible form of my composition,’ he said.
– Extract from ‘Imagine Coal’ by Mary Cookson
Imagine Coal and More Micro-Fiction contains the winning entries from Leaf Books’ second micro-fiction competition of 2007. The thirty-one tiny fragments of wonderfulness within very concisely discourse on a fantastic variety of subjects, from artists’ models to attempted matricide via alien invasions, dancing GIs and elderly men with aphasia.